Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Ranger had a big part in this book)

This book was so enjoyable - chuckle out loud fun - that I disliked to see it end! I love this author and I really like this series! If you are looking for something with deep significance, and hidden messages, this is not the book to read. But, if you want a light-weight, fun, and pleasurable read, this is your book! I laughed so hard from the beginning to the very end!




There aren't enough superlatives in the English language to explain how much I Iove Stephanie Plum novels narrated by Lorelie King. Evanovich is the funniest writer alive and Lorelie King is brilliant! She brings every nuance of humor out of the dialogue. Her characters are so vivid and well defined that you forget this is just a book and not real life. I highly recommend it.

Lost Girls: A rapid paced, clenching thriller novel (Detective Kim Stone crime thriller series Book 3)

Amazingly gripping, powerful, action-packed book and undoubtedly one of my favorites.



Lost Girls is the 3rd book in the D.I Kim Stone collection. Even while I have read the prior two
books I in fact think Lost Girls pretty easily reads as a stand alone novel, however would
definitely suggest reading the first two novels also as they are superb books.
The story line in Lost Girls, as a mother or father, truly did make for an uneasy read in areas but
was amazed and truly consumed by it.
I don’t know if it was due to the fact of the dynamics of the case but Kim appeared a lot more
energetic than usual. I genuinely would not want to get on the inappropriate side of her. She
undoubtedly put more than a couple of individuals in their places, which a couple of people
more than well deserved it and I thoroughly enjoyed reading through those sections.
The desperation of the circumstance of the two lost girls really comes through in the book and
Lost Girls genuinely makes for a fast moving and clenching read which, by the finish I was
virtually holding my breath, wishing that Kim and her team would resolve the situation and find
both girls safe and more essentially alive.
The sections with Charlie and Amy delivered chills all through me. You could sense the genuine
fear and terror that both girls were enduring. This is unquestionably not a read for the weak
hearted but for true crime thriller fans this is undoubtedly a must read.
The writer surely knows how to interlace a tale that performs games with the audience minds
never mind the characters. With twists and turns it is a story that will absolutely get your heart
beating.
Fantastic book in which for me is very much a 5 star collection.

The Prettiest One: A Thriller/dark exciting/fast paced book you have to read

When Caitlin Sommers discovers herself alone in a empty parking lot with blood on her clothing
and no memory of the prior few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have
tormented her for years but it’s all too genuine. Determined to find out the truth about where
she’s been and what has transpired to her but terrified of what she may uncover, Caitlin
embarks on a search for answers. Her voyage takes her from the safe suburban community she
understands to a seedy town she’s never heard of, where a terrible truth from her past lies
hidden, a truth she can’t quite recall yet can’t entirely forget.
After pursuing careers in screenwriting and later the law, bestselling author James Hankins committed himself to writing fiction and has written four popular thrillers—Shady Cross, Brothers and Bones, Jack of Spades, and Drawn—each of which became Amazon #1 bestsellers. Additionally, Brothers and Bones received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was named to its list of Best Books of 2013.
What an extraordinary story this is from page one until the ending.
Just about when I imagined I had a segment of it
figuredout, I admit that I was completly wrong. And, my investagating common sense did not help for the other parts of the book either. An superb plot motivated by some intriguing character types makes this one a serious page turner. And, the progression of the characters is fantastic which includes both the good guys and the nasty ones. The publishing style is clean and flows easily and the detailed portions will make one wince at times. One thing that I really relished was the two strong women characters Caitlin and Detective Charlotte Hunnsaker.

Laughter is interjected all through the book to allow the readers an possibility to get their breath. After I completed reading this book I kept thinking of it for days ,that is a sign of a great thriller. Mr. Hankins has gone deeply into the minds of two generations with simplicity and also explained in detail the manner in which a distressing event impacts a person.

Most highly recommended and for a number of reasons.

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Gillian Flynn have you read all 3 of her books Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl.

Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American writer, film writer, comic book writer and previous television critic for Entertainment Weekly.Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri to two community-college professors—her mother taught reading; her father, film. As a result she spent an excessive amount of her childhood nosing through books and watching movies.

Flynn’s 2006 very first novel, the fictional mystery Sharp Objects, was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain’s Dagger Awards—the first book ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Movie rights have been sold.

Flynn’s second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was a New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice. Movie rights have been sold, with Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) to direct.

Flynn’s third novel, GONE GIRL has become a household name now especially after the release of the hit movie in Oct. Probley one of the best written and best thrillers written in the last 5 years Gone girl  has gone on to enormous success making Flynn one of the top writer's of this decade.

Sharp Objects
Clean from a short stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker confronts a scary assignment: she must go back to her small home town to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has barely talked to her neurotic, hypochondriac mom or to the half-sister she scarcely knows a stunning thirteen-year-old with an spooky grip on the town. Now, set up in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille discovers herself identifying with the youthful victims,a bit too powerfully. Dogged by her own demons, she must uncover the psychological dilemma of her own past if she wants to get the story,and make it through this homecoming.

You will surely be drawn into this dark mystery/thriller
I adore a great psychological thriller with disturbingly defective characters and this book did not let you down. The main character is a lady battling to make a life for herself, fleeing her childhood and really, fleeing her mom when she is directed back to her home town as an investigative reporter. She is assigned to report on the grotesque murders of two pre-teen girls, but in the procedure she gets put right back in the middle of her screwed up family characteristics, her small town's social design, and a potential romance..

 Dark Places

Libby Day was seven when her mom and two sisters were killed in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and notoriously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years afterwards, the Kill Club—a secret society preoccupied with notorious crimes,locates Libby and squeezes her for specifics. They hope to uncover proof that may free Ben. Libby wants to turn a profit off her tragic history. She’ll reconcile with the players from that night and report her findings to the club,for a fee. As Libby’s research takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to deserted Oklahoma tourist towns, the incomprehensible truth comes forth, and Libby finds herself right back where she started,on the run from a killer.

Really loved this book. Very dark and with more twists than a cork screw. I think part of its attraction to me is the environment. Being from Missouri I could identify some of the places in the book. It's great to see a book written by a woman who comprehends women and has no fear in putting them in gritty settings

Gone Girl.


On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? 

I read all three, I started with Sharp Objects, and I loved the writing. Usually like 90% of the time, I figure the ending in the first third of the book. Not with this author, after reading the first book, she had me sucked in and I had to read the other two as soon and as fast as I could. Not only has the author have a way with words, she can twist the plot 360 degrees, and you are shaking your head with your mouth open wondering how did I miss that! A few chapters down the road she twists it around again, and by the ending of the book, you are still shaking your head with the mouth wide open, going back and rereading chapters. Nope I didn't miss something, she just is that GOOD.

The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

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Invisible by James Patterson ,David Ellis James Patterson's scariest, most chilling stand-alone thriller yet

Invisible by James Patterson ,David Ellis  James Patterson's scariest, most chilling stand-alone thriller yet,Invisible. Absolutely everyone believes FBI analyst Emmy is insane because she thinks 100s of crimes are linked. What if she's correct.

Absolutely everybody is convinced Emmy Dockery is insane. Preoccupied with obtaining the link between 100s of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her work as an FBI analyst. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her room, and her continual nightmares of an all-consuming fire.

Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that 100s of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all linked. That is, until Emmy detects a piece of evidence he can't afford to overlook. More murders are documented by the day--and they're all mysterious. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one particular person truly be responsible for these unimaginable crimes?



Excerpt from http://www.jamespatterson.com/books_invisible.php#excerpts

Chapter 1

THIS TIME I know it, I know it with a certainty that chokes my throat with panic, that grips and twists my heart until it’s ripped from its mooring. This time, I’m too late.

This time, it’s too hot. This time, it’s too bright, there’s too much smoke.

The house alarm is screaming out, not the early-warning beep but the piercing you’re-totally-screwed-if-you-don’tmove-now squeal. I don’t know how long it’s been going off, but it’s too late for me now. The searing oven-blast heat within the four corners of my bedroom. The putrid black smoke that singes my nostril hairs and pollutes my lungs. The orange flames rippling across the ceiling above me, dancing around my bed, almost in rhythm, a taunting staccato, popping and crackling, like it’s not a fire but a collection of flames working together; collectively, they want me to know, as they bob up and down and spit and cackle, as they slowly advance, This time it’s too late, Emmy —

The window. Still a chance to jump off the bed to the left and run for the window, the only part of the bedroom still available. The enemy is cornering me, daring me, Go ahead, Emmy, go for the window, Emmy —

This is my last chance, and I know, but don’t want to think about, what happens if I fail —that I have to start preparing myself for the pain. It will just hurt for a few minutes, it will be teeth-gnashing, gut-twisting agony, but then the heat will shrivel off my nerve endings and I’ll feel nothing, or better yet I’ll pass out from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Nothing to lose. No time to waste.

The flames hit my flannel comforter as my legs kick over to the floor, as I bounce up off the mattress and race the one-two-three-four steps to the window. A girlish, panicky squeal escapes my throat, like when Daddy and I used to play chase in the backyard and he was closing in. I lower my shoulder and lunge against the window, a window that was specifically built to not shatter, and ringing out over the alarm’s squeal and the lapping of the flames is a hideous roar, a hungry growl, as I bounce off the window and fall backward into the raging heat. I tell myself, Breathe, Emmy, suck in the toxic pollution, don’t let the flames kill you, BREATHE—

Breathe. Take a breath.

“Damn,” I say to nobody in my dark, fire-free room. My eyes sting from sweat and I wipe them with my T-shirt. I know better than to move right away; I remain still until my pulse returns to human levels, until my breathing evens out.

I look over at the clock radio, where red fluorescent square numbers tell me it’s half past two.

Dreams suck. You think you’ve conquered something, you work on it over and over and tell yourself you’re getting better, you will yourself to get better, you congratulate yourself on getting better. And then you close your eyes at night, you drift off into another world, and suddenly your own brain is tapping you on the shoulder and saying,Guess what? You’re NOT better!

I let out one, conclusive exhale and reach for my bedroom light. When I turn it on, the fire is everywhere. It’s my wallpaper now, the various photographs and case summaries and inspectors’ reports adorning the walls of my bedroom, fires involving deaths in cities throughout the United States: Hawthorne, Florida. Skokie, Illinois. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Plano, Texas. Piedmont, California.

And, of course, Peoria, Arizona.

Fifty-three of them in all.

I move along the wall and quickly review each one. Then I head to my computer and start opening e-mails.

Fifty-three that I know of. There are undoubtedly more.

This guy isn’t going to stop.

Copyright © 2014 by James Patterson

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Alex cross books in order for Nook, Kindle or paperbeck up dated 1/7/2015

Along Came a Spider
Daily life adjustments for Deputy Chief of Detectives Alex Cross when he is enticed into a high-profile case. Two nine-year-old children are kidnapped by a teacher, Gary Soneji, from the exclusive Washington Day School. Maggie Rose Dunne is the child of an actress, and Michael "Shrimpie" Goldberg is the son of the Secretary of Treasury. A ransom of $10 million is commanded.

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Kiss the Girls
Alex Cross meets wits with Casanova and The Gentlemen Caller. This time it is personalized. Naomi Cross, twenty-two-year-old daughter of Cross's deceased brother Aaron, is reported missing. She is a law student at Duke University. Cross goes to North Carolina, dreading the worst.

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Jack & Jill
A game of Life and Death. Sam Harrison (Jack) and Sara Rosen (Jill) pleasure in their board game that has pictures of famous people; a simple roll of the dice ascertains their fate.
When sixty-four-year-old Senator Daniel Fitzpatrick is found slain, the FBI makes a official request for Cross. The FBI is stymied. The code name for President Thomas Byrnes is Jack. The First Lady's is Jill.

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Cat & Mouse
A murder named Mr. Smith commences his murder spree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then commences terrorizing Europe. Bodies are found "gutted." At the same time Gary Soneji taunts Cross with murders in train stations.

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Pop Goes the Weasel
Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, works in Intelligence in the British Embassy in D.C. He and three garbled friends play a Game of Death that consists of innocent women around the planet.

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Roses Are Red
Meet The Mastermind. He's the man guiding bank robberies and the homicide of bank employees wholly committed in Virginia and Maryland. Then a tour bus is hijacked in D.C. and a $30 million ransom commanded. Cross and an FBI team have less than two hours to produce.

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Violets Are Blue
A string of grotesque murders points to a vampire subculture in the United States. Cross travels to San Francisco to meet up with with Inspector Jamilla Hughes, Homicide. They amass a list of unsolved vampire murders going back at least eleven years.

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Four Blind Mice
The Blue lady Murders take place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Army wives are murdered and their bodies painted blue. John Sampson asks Cross to speak to his friend and mentor, Sergeant Ellis Cooper, who has been convicted of the killings but swears he is innocent..

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The Big Bad Wolf
Zamochit signifies "the breaking of bones." It is part of a murder ritual utilized by members of the Red Mafiya. The "impossible" homicide of an Italian godfather in the high-security, supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, is just the starting point.

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London Bridges
Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, is located and kidnapped from Salvador, Brazil. The infamous Wolf then sends him on a assignment. His first job is to completely wipe out an American town-Sunrise Valley, Nevada. And once again, that is just the starting point.

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Mary, Mary
Hollywood's most prominent stars are being slain one by one. The killer is known only as Mary Smith. Is Mary really a woman? Or just someone playing the part? With the LAPD and FBI confused, it's up to Alex Cross to uncover the truth

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Alex Cross (also published as Cross)
Among the bad guys Alex Cross has confronted—Gary Soneji, Casanova, The Mastermind, The Wolf—one psychopath tops them all. Alex knows him as his wife's killer. Alex may have a opportunity to catch his wife's assassin after all these years. Is this a chance for justice at long last? Or the concluding scene in his own deadly obsession?

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Double Cross
Alex Cross rejoins the DC Police Force to deal with two of the most diabolical murderers he's ever came across, a psychotic monster who craves an audience and a murdering mastermind who works alone. Both want Alex dead, and they'll to do anything to get what they want, even if it means plotting together...

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Cross Country
In more than a decade of police work, it is the most severe murder scene Alex Cross has ever witnessed. A family has been butchered in their home. And more mysterious deaths follow. One after the other. Each more grotesque than the last. The only lead is an incredibly elusive trail left by a diabolical African warlord know only as The Tiger. It leads Alex Cross into the dark underbelly of Washington DC and beyond, into a true heart of darkness in Africa.

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I, Alex Cross
Detective Alex Cross is yanked out of a family party and given the awful news that a favorite relative has been found brutally slain. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was involved in one of Washington's craziest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim.

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Cross Fire
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's marriage plans are put on pause when Alex is called to the scene of the flawlessly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most tainted: a dirty congressmen and an deceptive lobbyist. Next, the evasive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories—is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?

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Kill Alex Cross
The President's son and daughter are kidnapped, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But somebody very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.

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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross


It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been termed to catch an individual who's stealing from his church's poor box. That quest behind him, Alex returns home to rejoice with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree adorning is barely started before his phone rings again—a horrifying hostage situation is quickly spinning out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativeness, and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything—and he may not make it back alive on this most hallowed of family days. Alex Cross is a hero for our time, and never more so than in this story of family, action, and the deepest moral choices. MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS will be a holiday classic for years to come.

Alex Cross, Run
Detective Alex Cross arrests distinguished plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, with his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recongise him—by giving himself a new face.

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Cross My Heart

Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart—nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career.

When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die.

CROSS MY HEART is the most powerful Alex Cross novel ever, propelled by the ever-ingenious mind of James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer.

Hope to Die/ Alex Cross super thriller by James Patterson

Detective Alex Cross is getting stalked by a psychotic genius, compelled to engage in the deadliest game of his career. Cross's household his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his treasured children have been kidnapped. Frightened and anxious, Cross must give this mad man what he wishes if he has any possibility of salvaging the most crucial people in his life. The limits have never been greater: What will Cross give up to save the ones he loves?